216: Being Flexible Instead of Perfect (with Monica Packer)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In our discussion, Monica and I share how we've intentionally become more flexible and how it has positively impacted our families.
We're talking about being flexible with your habits, productivity, and routines in favor of a more curious, open, and in-progress life. You can be the calming lighthouse for your family and for yourself. It starts with letting go.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women podcast, episode number 216. We're talking about being |
| 0:06.5 | flexible instead of perfect, which is the perfect topic for a COVID-19 world. Stay tuned. |
| 0:12.8 | Hi, I'm Jen Ritey, and this podcast is for women who want to feel more vibrant, happy, |
| 0:18.4 | aligned, and alive. You'll gain the emotional, physical, and spiritual |
| 0:22.6 | tools you need to get your sparkle back and ensure that depression, anxiety, and struggle |
| 0:27.8 | don't rule your life. Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women podcast. Hey, my friends, it's Jen. |
| 0:35.1 | Welcome back to another episode of Vibrant Happy Women. I'm so glad you're here. So COVID- friends, it's Jen. Welcome back to another episode of Vibran's happy women. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:40.0 | So COVID-19. It's an interesting world, isn't it? Yes, there is suffering and struggle. |
| 0:46.1 | And I acknowledge that. Many of you are working. Many of you work in the healthcare profession. |
| 0:50.9 | And my hat is off to all of you. Thank you so much. Those of you working at |
| 0:55.1 | grocery stores, those of you providing any essential service, thank you. All of us, whether we're |
| 1:00.9 | working or not right now, have this amazing opportunity to learn from this. We learn our whole lives |
| 1:06.8 | long, but this is a big one. Our minds will never forget it. There's a definite before and |
| 1:13.6 | after in terms of COVID-19. But I want to talk about how one of the big things I'm learning, |
| 1:19.0 | and maybe you are too, is to let go of control and to learn emotional resilience. Two big lessons. |
| 1:27.3 | First of all, letting go of control. We can't control |
| 1:30.1 | the outcome. We don't have a lot of control over when we're going to catch it, even if we're doing |
| 1:35.8 | physical distancing. We don't have a lot of control over the other people who live with us. |
| 1:41.6 | We don't have a lot of control over anything except how we feel, |
| 1:46.1 | how we manage things, what we expect of ourselves and others. So it becomes this beautiful time to |
| 1:52.3 | stop trying to control and just let go. One thing letting go requires of us is to be able to |
| 1:59.5 | handle uncomfortable feelings. When we can't control something, |
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